Films produced by Animate

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

Mixed animation and live action techniques tell the stories of those with a schizophrenic parent, childhood scenes in which everyday events gradually...

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

In an office world of half light, flickering fluorescent tubing, ringing phones and monotonous paperwork, the residents sit trapped in a state of...

Construed in the time of running clouds, a panoramic and another examination of vacant buildings on the British shore (Orford Ness), a deserted place...

Created through a process of close collaboration between director, performer and crew, this thoroughly eccentric and stylistically original film does...

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

The tale of a quest to free Napoleon Bonaparte from exile on the island of St Helena, including fresh insight into the mystery of The Emperor's...

Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no...

Sam Moore's Doubled Up tells of the shock and awe of finding out she was expecting twins. The film is an opulent and multi-faceted song of love,...

A tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities...

A strange, funny and erotic walk through the growing-up of a contemporary male sexuality, from childhood friendship through puberty to a contented...

Short stop motion animation Directed by Paul Bush

Who I Am And What I Want is a 7 minute animated short directed by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley in 2005. Based on the David Shrigley book of the...

A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.

A maid and her mistress in an Edward Hopper hotel, in a jazz-inflected piece about women's solitude and swapped identities, mixing live action and...

A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name.

Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one...

"An Anatomy of Melancholy" is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book - one in the process of being made....

Short by Vera Neubauer.

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

Mixed animation and live action techniques tell the stories of those with a schizophrenic parent, childhood scenes in which everyday events gradually...

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

In an office world of half light, flickering fluorescent tubing, ringing phones and monotonous paperwork, the residents sit trapped in a state of...